You're right. Sunday will be St. Patrick's Day. I was interested in finding out some information about St. Patrick, so did some research in the World Book Encyclopedia.

When a person is declared a saint, his memory is honored on a particular day each year, usually the anniversary of his death. And St. Patrick's death was recorded as March 17, probably in 461.

He was the patron saint of Ireland and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in the United States since Colonial days.

Legend has it that he used the shamrock, the national flower of Ireland, to illustrate the idea of the Trinity, pointing out that its three small leaves represented the Holy Trinity. The encyclopedia also says he founded more than 300 churches and baptized more than 120,000 people. We pray we never stop learning.